@paravorheim: Just download the netbook edition and install it. Or you can open up Synaptic and look for the netbook package, then choose it as a session from your login page.

If you are running 10.10, I recommend taking a look at the netbook interface. It will give you some good mac-like interface features, but with a distinctly ubuntu feel (besides being officially developed and supported).

@joelja: Yep, I have a Dell Mini 9. They used a card like the Eee, but with an even smaller form factor (kind of annoying, actually, only specially sized cards can fit).

I lead a life with high material needs. I am always trying to pair down the things I own, but then I come down to what feels like a fairly large number of objects that I actually use regularly.

@das7002: I remember getting a computer with 1GB of RAM for the first time. Loading all of Knoppix into RAM and cruising about the OS at high speed was really fun. For a few minutes at least, then I realized I had no use for that kind of setup. Worth seeing though, it is neat if you like that sort of thing.

As cool as that is, he will have to compromise some style to make it work. The Andrea bike, for instance, will not be structurally sound without a lot more connections between the letters.

I suppose I have learned a lot about organizing and teamwork from a few MMOs, but I usually go in for fantasy games that have practically no depiction of valuable life skills.

@CodeJanitor: I had the same exact response! I was just going to hide the fact until you said something though...

I have always been a big proponent of it, but find that I rarely use it. It is nice when I am away from someone I care about for a while, but I can't say that is more often than once every few months.

I switched from a Thinkpad to a Macbook, and I do miss that fingerprint reader. Of course, I don't miss the fact that my T60 overheated and crashed all the time...

I've left the whole TV situation altogether. I suppose I have never been a big watcher of television anyway.

I recently watched these. I went in it expecting to be disappointed, but I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing and the actors really managed to keep a lot of what made the characters of the books interesting.

Been using it since beta. I highly recommend it to all current Ubuntu users (and anyone else, for that matter ;).

Leaving aside whether it would work or not (I know in theory, but in that size and with enough power to matter?), copper is a really poor body material choice. It is soft and oxidizes badly (and, as you mentioned, getting expensive).

You are going to get a lot of people saying "Why not just break in?" I think it is wrong to just say password when the article clearly states encryption password (which would mean a very different thing to most people).

I'd have to go with iPhone 4. I have never liked any of the Blackberries, so they are out right away. I've been keeping an eye on Android phones, but none of seemed especially compelling to me.

I've been doing the Google Sync/Dropbox thing for a while and it has suited my needs. I suppose I don't have an extreme need to mirror my desktop productivity on my phone. I just like having access to certain files in an emergency and making sure my contacts/calendars stay synced.

Um... Alumina is inert (really, its a ceramic we use as an implant material because it is so stable). Long term exposure to particulate has the same risks as any other industrial dust or powder exposure, but it won't burn. I imagine the problem here is whatever chemicals they are using to split the alumina.

I've been running 10.10 on my netbook since the beta release. So far so good. The first time I installed Unity (the day of beta release) it was buggy and unusable, but I reinstalled it today and it seems great so far. I think I will stick with it (and I might even consider it as an interface on a "standard" computer).

I wrote a really long reply, then I realized it was unnecessary.